RECITATION • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Recitation

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˌɛsətˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Recitation n.

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.

(Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

See images of 'Recitation'

Etymology of 'Recitation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Recitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... hands on, and remembered everything he read. He achieved familiarity with Latin and with Latin authors, and absorbed a great deal of history. He was the best general scholar in the college. He was not only not deficient but he showed excellence at recitation in every branch of study. He could learn anything if he tried. But with all this he never gained more than a smattering of Greek and still less of mathematics, because those studies require, for anything more than a fair proficiency, ...

— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge

... speech by Judge Ryan of St. Louis, and a most eloquent address by a priest, who had been a young Boer officer, he inspired Irish patriotism by an elegant appeal against "Old England." He was indeed an orator who, by his recitation, held the audience for an hour. I was one who was nearest to him on the platform and congratulated him on his ...

— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg

... her. Trix had it in her power to bother the next to the oldest Corner House girl, sitting as she did at the nearest desk. The custom was, in verbal recitation, for the pupil to rise in her (or his) seat and recite. When it came Agnes' time to recite, Trix would whisper something entirely irrelevant to the ...

— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill

... bell for classes sounded and the girls picked up their books. At the second bell they filed out through the corridor to their various recitation rooms. As Grace, who had stopped to look for a lost pencil, hurried toward the geometry classroom, she passed Julia Crosby, who was moping along, wiping her eyes with her handkerchief. Julia cast an angry glance at ...

— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower

... man sat down on a stone and sang to us a low, sweet recitation, or chant, in wild key, or mode, ending on a rising ...

— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings

More quotes...